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Day two of getting more into Ruby programming and I must say: Ruby can be fun! Okay, a few people seem to be really mad about it and see the language as an answer to everything, but I think there are some advantages to other languages, especially when it comes to string manipulation, iteration or string masking, but every language has its pros and cons.

I had to get into some ruby programming for my job and so I decided to refresh my memories a bit more. It became more or less a tradition of mine to write some network or internet code to get into a language and so here’s a first result.
It’s just a simple function for making a HTTP request on a given target. On success it returns an HTTP object, on error nil. It’s nothing fancy, but it should be reliable and maybe helps someone for his/her project…

Since April 2009 Google offers some nice feature in web search called Suggest, which is the  list of search queries you see,when you type in some search query into Google. I think everyone knows and uses it…
In addition to this nice helper on the website itself, Google also provides the same results as a feed or javascript code, which made me think of some way to utilize it and it seems to be a perfect helper for keyword research issues. The magical URL  is: http://www.google.com/complete/search with its parameters.
Parameters are:

hl: string value which determines …

Maybe it’s the worst code I have ever written, but it was also my very first project in C++ and lost for years, because of my stupidity. Now, about four years later, rasco found an old copy of the source on some backup DVD and made the code and game alive again…

Some days ago I posted an article about fetching the actual hot trends from Google. Today, I wrote the TrendFetcher library, a simple PHP class/library, that gives you a nice jquery flavoured “trend ticker” with the latest hot trends from Google, the actual trends from Twitter and some API access.